All I can say is that both sides are wrong. Israel is an apartheid state. I was born Jewish but I do not have to side with Israel. I am far from an antisemite. Evil is evil.
Israel and Hamas are wrong.
Palestinians are simply victims.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. They are victims and they are being kept that way.
So how can you so easily say both sides are wrong?
If a twelve year old child and thirty-five year old MMA fighter had beef because of the thirty-five year old’s actions, would you say both of them are wrong? Power dynamics should easily change optics here
Well, it depends on whether the 12 year old has an assault rifle and a rocket launcher, doesn’t it.
So in your silly addition what does the MMA fighter get? Because Hamas does not have anything Israel also doesn’t have but Israel has very very much more than Hamas.
Well, it’s a silly addition because it is a silly analogy.
Obviously, an unarmed 12-year old cannot harm an MMA fighter at all. Whereas, Hamas clearly has the ability to hurt Israel. So, in your analogy, you have to give the 12-ywar old something that can severely hurt the MMA fighter. So, okay, maybe give the 12-year old a big can of pepper spray. The assault rifle and rocket launcher were more of an allusion to the weapons Hamas actually has.
Whereas, Hamas clearly has the ability to hurt Israel.
They can hurt Israelis, but they can’t meaningfully hurt the Israeli state.
If a twelve year old child and thirty-five year old MMA fighter had beef because of the thirty-five year old’s actions, would you say both of them are wrong?
Yes. The child is punching up does not justify the act of punching. The optics of the power dynamic simply mean the thirty-five year old the worst of the two because they’re punching down.
The child is only doing anything because of the adult.
In no situation is the child to blame, you can explain why what they did was wrong but if you don’t acknowledge the circumstances of how we got here you’re being all sorts of disingenuous.
The fact is Israel is wrong here and there’s nothing else to be said. Hamas is a force of desperation, why are they desperate?
In no situation is the child to blame, you can explain why what they did was wrong but if you don’t acknowledge the circumstances of how we got here you’re being all sorts of disingenuous.
I can acknowledge the circumstances that have created this… thing, and still blame the child because none of it absolves them from their actions. Like you said, what they did was wrong. Are we just supposed to ignore the fact that they did was wrong simply because next to them is a bigger asshole who is also doing wrong things on a greater scale? I don’t think so.
The fact is Israel is wrong here and there’s nothing else to be said. Hamas is a force of desperation, why are they desperate?
Israel is wrong here, but it doesn’t mean Hamas isn’t also wrong. Hamas is not a force of desperation. Hamas is just a militant group that uses the desperation of others to further their goals. The ones being desperate are Palestinians, they’ve done nothing wrong and they shouldn’t be blamed. Hamas can fuck right off alongside Israeli government.
Well then you are a fool and your logic is the same reason why people hate zero tolerance policies, because they’re stupid and weak and do nothing but protect the school (state) and continue an abusive system. Good job at being terrible at understanding context or anything complex.
Hamas literally wouldn’t exist if Israel didn’t act this way for decades and also DIDN’T FUND THEM. Did you know that? Israel funded them? Crazy.
You’re clueless.
If you go to a zoo and taunt the chimpanzee and he bites your finger off. You’d blame the chimp.
If you chose to strip down to your undies and skinny dip in sub zero temp and then died of hypothermia. You’d blame the weather.
If you saw radioactive material beside your morning coffee, drank it and died. You’d blame the fabric of the universe for letting radiation exist.
None of that makes sense. Hamas shouldn’t and wouldn’t be in power if not for Israel.
This is 100% on Israel and saying anything else just exposes your misunderstanding of power dyanmics.
Hamas is wrong?
Seems to me as if they are the only ones lifting a finger against the white supremacist settler-colonialist state that is threatening Palestinians with extermination.
sure, but if you look at literally ANYTHING ELSE about them you’ll see what we mean.
they’re a far right religious extremist organization that wants for Palestine what the Taliban is doing in Afghanistan. they don’t want to stop oppression, they just think it’s affecting the wrong people right now. that region well not get less shitty with them in power.
you’ll see what we mean.
No, I know perfectly what you mean - your pro-Israeli propaganda is failing rapidly, and your only other option is to resort to “both-sideism.”
As long as Hamas is the only organization willing to actively oppose the white supremacist settler-colonialist state, their ideology is actually irrelevant because Hamas is the lesser evil here - you understand “lesser evil-ism,” right?
We can talk all day long why Israel funded Hamas or why the existence of the Taliban can be blamed on the US, but that doesn’t change anything - Hamas is the lesser evil here.
In a “lessr evil-ism” scenario it seems pretty clear to me that both are wrong lol.
Please tell me how Nelson Mandela and the ANC were evil
I’m not saying they’re the same. one is clearly worse. I’m saying it’s probably a bad idea to fund and legitimize an extremist religious government like them. in fact, your point about the US being to blame for the taliban is EXACTLY the point. this is the lesson we need to learn from that. we funded and armed them against what we saw as a greater threat and so we looked past the ideologies of those we supported. if we support and legitimize hamas we’ll be doing the exact same thing again.
I’m definitely not saying we should support Israel, I’m not saying we shouldn’t help Palestine, I’m just saying we need to be careful.
The choice is between a white supremacist settler state, and an Islamic supremacy group that wants to force everyone else to live under Sharia law. There is nothing good here, it’s all shit all the way down. Israel sucks ass and I completely understand why Hamas is lashing out against them. It is absolutely deserved.
I just don’t understand how you could root for Hamas, unless you are a conservative Muslim who wants to force everyone else to obey Islam. Root for the Palestinian people, but fuck Hamas and its cultists. They aren’t helping their nation at all. They are making things even worse for their own people.
It is completely possible to condemn the actions of Israel and Hamas at the same time. You don’t have to pick a side here, it’s not helping or changing anything except your mental health. Support the innocent people who are caught up in this hellish war, and curse the people perpetuating it.
Yes.
Hamas are right wing religious ethno-nationalists who haven’t even allowed an election in 20 years.
There’s a reason Netanyahu and other far-right Israelis keep propping up Hamas and weakening the PLO.
and weakening the PLO.
Yeah, I remember the PLO - people just like you were calling them “terrorists” back in the 70s and 80s, too.
Anyone that resists white supremacism and colonialism must be a “terrorist” - isn’t that so?
Have I used the word terrorist once?
Stop making up strawmen to fight.
Oh, you don’t have to - there’s nothing about your “moderate” politics that aren’t predictable. Nothing new about it, either.
Oh no the right winger is calling me moderate for not supporting fascists.
2 wrongs don’t make a right. Neither side should be proud of their actions here
Neither side should be proud of their actions here
Oh, I don’t know about that… Hamas’ attack has led to the first large-scale failure of the pro-Israeli propaganda machine in the west in four decades - the hysterically fascist reaction of the US political establishment to this propaganda failure is pretty self-evident.
I’d say Hamas have managed to achieve something quite momentous.
Hamas definitely isn’t in the wrong anymore. No rape, no decapitation, extremely targeted attacks against military.
These new numbers make Hamas look like angels.
Your comment is as wrong as two left shoes. Ain’t nothing right about it.
The side resisting the genocidal white supremacist settler-colonialist state is far less wrong.
Most Israelis aren’t white.
Yeah… Israel’s political institutions are paragons of racial diversity.
I see several non white middle easterners in that picture.
They claimed 1,300 were killed, and that number turns out to be wrong…
…meanwhile they’ve killed over 13,000 Palestinians. It’s not an eye for an eye, it’s genocidal murder.
It’s over 18,000 Palestinians now.
And that’s most likely an undercount. Those are the official numbers from the health department, and they only count casualties that go through their system. They don’t know what’s happening in IDF occupied areas, or how many bodies are still under rubble that nobody is able to dig out.
Don’t include Hamas terrorists with Palestinian civil casualties.
They are two separate things, which are counted separately.
Don’t include Hamas terrorists with Palestinian civil casualties.
Do tell… does the IDF follow Vietnam rules? Ie, does a Palestinian child only count as “half-a-terrorist” to the genocidal white supremacist settler-colonialist state?
You still didn’t provide the correct numbers.
Murder and torture of unarmed elders, women and babit is purely heinous, no matter the scale.
The final death toll from the attack is now thought to be 695 Israeli civilians, including 36 children, as well as 373 security forces and 71 foreigners, giving a total of 1,139.
So? Does it matter if it was 1400, 1300 or 1139? It’s mass murder anyway, and Hamas are still bastards for killing them. And Netanyahu is still a bastard for using it as a free pass on bombing Gaza. These numbers don’t change anything at all.
Can one imagine a rave party with a thousand+ of people, and then imagine them all dead? Or a european-like district with housing, schools, shops for 13k people - you can see them on Google Maps, they were pretty sweet in spite of israeli politics - all leveled down to the ground. It’s a rave party not unlike one happening near you, this neighborhood is not unlike yours. These people may not speak english, yet they share basic things with you, like, they could’ve liked the same songs, the same movies like you do, some of them could’ve even been trekkies. And now they are lost. They won’t have a child, they won’t share a funny story over drinks with friends, they won’t build that birdhouse their elderly parents asked for. They are dead, non-existent, and all work put into making them proper adults is lost. And whatever it’s a thousand, or a thousand of thosands, it’s too much to ignore. Every person shot or slayed there is too much to ignore. There should be a ceasefire agreement first, it needs to stop.
I know right, imagine if it had been over 15,000 innocent people that had had their homes destroyed and their family and friends killed over something they had nothing to do with.
and then imagine them all dead?
Did that happen?
Also while atrocities were committed on October 7th, AFAIK there was no mass murder. And if you’re wondering how so many people died then, there’s an unknown but significant number of IDF-inflicted casualties in those 1139.
I’m not sure what’s the definition of mass murder but advancing in a city/place and start killing indiscriminately sounds a lot like it.
Yes but I’m saying that didn’t happen to my knowledge. From what we know so far about the attack, the IDF response was far from careful not to harm civilians, and in some cases chose to actively kill hostages to get the Hamas soldiers who captured them.
Israel so far hasn’t done anything close to releasing the number of people who died to IDF fire, or just in the crossfire between Hamas and the IDF, and until they do that they have no grounds to claim Hamas committed mass murder.
~ 1/3 military kills is definitely not “indiscriminately killing”. These numbers change everything.
It’s not a mass murder anymore. Oct7 was a justified targeted retaliation.
Justified retaliation, and an operation meant to get concessions out of Israel for Gazans. That’s why they took the hostages.
there was no mass murder
Go fuck yourself with a fork if 1139, or even 500 isn’t a mass murder in your dictionary, I don’t feel like I want to talk to you. You don’t help palestinians by downplaying what hamas bastards did to jews while enjoying golf courses in Quatar.
Fuck yourself first asshole they used this excuse to declare a genocide and it comes out Israeli leadership fucking funded Hamas and allowed this shit to happen.
Hamas sucks but everything they did has Israeli hands helping and now Israeli hands are committing genocide.
How fuckin stupid are you?
You’d go to excuse Hamas, won’t you?
Hamas sucks but …
Get. Lost. Already.
Yes i absolutely will excuse Hamas. They’re a rabid angry abused dog taunted and then their owner secretly unlocked the fence and cried “what a bad dog look what it did to me!”
Israel is the start and end of this Hamas is a pawn. Fuck off idiot.
You are honest about that. I’d give you that. It feels refreshing to find an opponent who stays by their ideals. Thinking you are terminally wrong, I respect you still being there.
Excuse Hamas for what?
Launching an attack on a white supremacist settler-colonialist state that has been waging war on Palestinians since 1949?
I think it is you that needs to get lost.
I literally responded to that in the very next sentence. Until the IDF counts the people their own fire killed, and the ones who died in the crossfire, both of which exist in significant numbers, we have no evidence Hamas did anything close to mass murder. Also that 1139 is counting the 373 security force people, which are legitimate military targets.
So ~800 civilians dead still, right?
You… just ignored everything I said except the numbers right?
No?
You mean these 800-something people died in a cross-fire? I feel like I don’t uderstand you.
The crossfire, reckless (sometimes deliberate when they were taken hostage) IDF fire and Hamas war crimes. These three categories all contain significant numbers of people, so until we know who killed how many and where there are no grounds to claim Hamas committed mass murder.
You guys don’t understand they were all decapitated babies and we totally have proof. It is just too bad to show you.
1400 to 700 civilians.
Now lets invistigate why they are trying to hide how many the IDF killed of those 700.
I have seen two credible accounts so far: a tank killing 14 and another instance of 3 civilians allegedly being held hostage.
But I have seen credible accounts from witnesses indicating a lot of confused firing with no way to fully determine what the results were.
The exact number is only really relevant for historical purposes. Especially on this scale. At some point, a catastrophe like this really does become a statistic.
Large attacks like these cannot go unpunished, so the response would’ve been the same no matter the figure. Heck, even if it was a hundred people killed, that’s not something Israel could or should ignore.
And certainly, between the chaos, trauma and condition of some of the bodies, it’s obviously going to take a while to pin down an exact figure anyway.
IDF definitely murdered a bunch of civilians with helicopter spray and pray.
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